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Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers Jul 04, 2024

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The Labour Party, which is leading in UK election polls, has proposed making it easier for companies to build new server farms—risking a new type of conflict in communities across the country.

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The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift Jul 03, 2024

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By shifting regulatory power away from government agencies and to the courts, recent SCOTUS rulings may be a boon for a tech industry under fire.

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Rimac's Super-Sleek Robotaxi Has More Room Than a Rolls-Royce Jul 02, 2024

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The group's new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla's rival coming in August?

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Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand Jul 01, 2024

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WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.

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Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All Jun 28, 2024

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Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone.

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The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes Jun 27, 2024

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The US government vowed to crack down on the sale of illegal nicotine vapes. They only got cheaper, fancier, and more potent.

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My Memories Are Just Meta's Training Data Now Jun 26, 2024

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Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity.

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The Eternal Truth of Markdown Jun 25, 2024

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An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web.

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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google Jun 24, 2024

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Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.

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We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI Jun 21, 2024

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Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary.

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